How Climate Change Is Punishing Asthma Sufferers

Jillian Alfieri didn’t even make it through her first seven months before asthma started having its way with her. The now 13-year-old had just been placed in her stroller for an early evening walk when her parents noticed that she seemed to be battling to breathe. “At first, we thought she was choking,” says her father, Rob, a stay-at-home parent in New York City.

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